Posted on 07/20/2011 9:02:34 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO -- An estimated half-million illegal immigrants live in the Bay Area, according to a study that is one of the first to try to measure the number of local residents living in the U.S. illegally.
The report by the Public Policy Institute of California used tax returns, previous national estimates and mathematical models to determine that 563,000 illegal immigrants live in the Bay Area, about 8 percent of the region's total population.
Santa Clara County leads the Bay Area with 180,000 illegal immigrants, followed by Alameda County with 124,000 and Contra Costa County with 79,000, the study found.
"Unauthorized immigrants are a part of our communities. They're not just in a few pockets," said demographer Laura Hill, who is a co-author of the report. "This isn't a situation that is isolated to one or a few counties. These folks are likely to be pretty well-integrated in the places where they are."
Illegal immigrants make up 12 percent of the population in wine-growing Napa County, one of the highest rates after Monterey and San Benito counties, where they make up 13.5 percent of the population, and Imperial County, along the Mexican border, where they make up 12.8 percent. Illegal immigrants represent 10.2 percent of the population in Santa Clara County and 8.4 percent in Alameda County, according to the study.
The researchers also surmise that the population appears to be dropping, at least in older urban areas, as immigrants try their luck in inland California and other states.
Several other studies have found the state's illegal immigrant population, estimated at 2.6 million last year, to be steady or dropping even as it rises in Texas, Florida, North Carolina and other Southern states.
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
Sounds like a peaceful, loving environment! The local hippies sharing some “columbian” with their fellow globalists! Really cool! ~sarc
AND THEY VOTE AS WELL...
Mowin the grass and cleanin the toilets of the liberal elites there . no wonder they don’t want them gone Cheap, exploitative labor
This is what happens when you abort your next generation and turn to IMPORTING them/it..
What is that creature TOL?
Not to be critical, but shouldn’t that sign be in Spanish and Arabic?
PLEASE...................
Tell me something I don’t ALREADY KNOW!!
They don't live in San Fran anymore.
I believe that is a photoshopped lizard combined with bat’s wings.
Somebody gave it to me, and I almost fainted from acute cute.
That's my tax money being sent to California! I have a right to know!!!!
That said...I think it's more like 20 million illegal aliens living in the states....
Right about now there are 200 or so very liberal unemployed court workers who are going to read this and become Conservative,
Unintended consequences? Or just irony?
Can you say, SANCTUARY?
Agreed, no level of any government knows how many illegals are in the country.
When they take over the governments of the Southwestern states during the Reconquista, maybe they will tell us...
yep, I know this all too well. And no, they’re not all integrating into society. If they did, we’d never even hear about this issue.
No, my point was if you’ve got 1/2 million living in the bay area alone, then it doesn’t make sense that there’s only another 11 1/2 million in the rest of CA and the other 49 (or, would it be 56) states?
No comprehensive financial fix can be complete without Congress demanding enforcement against illegal immigration. American taxpayers spend $113 billion annually subsidizing illegal immigration. In some states, reducing this fiscal burden would would be nothing short of an economic miracle.
California's budget deficit is $28 billion yet the state spends $21.8 billion subsidizing illegal immigration, or 75 percent of their TOTAL deficit!
Massachusetts could almost clear its books by ending illegal alien subsidies; the state's deficit is $2 billion, while their annual cost of illegal immigration is $1.86 billion. Maryland and New York would enjoy much needed surplusses; those state's expenditures on illegal aliens actually exceed their deficits!
Unemployment is at its highest level in 27 years, yet illegal aliens continue to stream in taking jobs. While 25 million Americans are either looking for work, underemployed or have given up searching, 7 million jobs are occupied by illegal aliens. (Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com
My version would get me banned, as it is the last comment I posted about that er. female (?) was yanked by the moderator. :-)
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